Daymond Langkow has been wielding the hot hand for Calgary, with four goals in six games. (Dale MacMillan/Getty Images)

The Toronto Maple Leafs and Calgary Flames have no time to lick their wounds after tough losses, playing for a second consecutive night on Hockey Night in Canada (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 7 p.m. ET).

Toronto (3-9-5) is coming off a 3-2 loss in Chicago on Friday night.

The silver lining might have been that much-maligned goalie Vesa Toskala made 31 saves, 18 of them in the first period. He kept his team in the game with big saves on Patrick Kane, Kris Versteeg and Jonathan Toews.

Toskala wasn't helped by defencemen Luke Schenn and Garnet Exelby on two of the Chicago goals.

Schenn, already under the microscope after a poor start to his sophomore season, committed a heinous giveaway in the slot on the second goal. Exelby, meanwhile, did nothing to dissuade Troy Brouwer from screening Toskala and notching a deflection goal for the third.

With the fine effort from Toskala, the Leafs can now likely turn to goalie Jonas Gustavsson at home on Saturday out of luxury instead of desperate necessity, a rare thing so far this season.

Phil Kessel scored twice against Chicago and now has four goals and an assist in his first five games in a Maple Leafs uniform.

Toronto fans wondered whether he'd be as effective without playmaking centre Marc Savard, his old Boston teammate, but Kessel gave an indication of his creativity and quick release on both goals against the Blackhawks.

Kessel has accounted for half of the team's last eight goals.

Matt Stajan, who registered two assists against Chicago, was robbed by Blackhawks netminder Cristobal Huet on a great scoring chance. Niklas Hagman was denied on a shot that might have crossed the goal line, a scenario that couldn't be conclusively determined by video review.

Forwards Jason Blake, John Mitchell and Wayne Primeau didn't have those kind of valid excuses, each failing to make the most of prime scoring opportunities.

Flames flummoxed

Calgary has points in its last five games (4-0-1) but are coming off an intense shootout loss in Buffalo on Friday.

Daymond Langkow scored his fourth in six games just over one minute into the contest, but the Flames couldn't beat Ryan Miller the rest of the night.

Nigel Dawes missed a half-empty net in the third and a shootout attempt, with defenceman Mark Giordano sprung on a short-handed chance but unable to get the better of Miller.

Olli Jokinen was the only Calgary player to score in the shootout, but he too missed a good scoring chance in the third.

Jokinen, who has just two goals in 17 games, also committed a lazy penalty in overtime that forced countryman Miikka Kiprusoff to come up big between the Flames' pipes.

Kiprusoff finished with 31 saves. The Finnish netminder made a pair of big stops on Jason Pominville in overtime, as well as one on Tim Connolly.

The Flames again showed that they won't be anybody's pushover this season. Brandon Prust, Dion Phaneuf and Adam Pardy all engaged in scuffles of varying intensity with Buffalo players.

Calgary has gone without a goal in 10 chances with the man advantage over the last two games, which has seen their power-play ranking fall to 14th in the NHL.

The Flames are wrapping up a three-game road trip that coincides with the end of a suspension to Curtis Glencross for an illegal hit last week against the New York Rangers.

Calgary (11-4-2) returns home to the Saddledome on Tuesday against Colorado, the same night Toronto is in Ottawa to battle the Senators.